JBizzleRN ADN, RN

JBizzleRN has 5 years experience as a ADN, RN and specializes in ICU.

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1. Travel as a team?

   JBizzleRN replied to jab3da's topic in Travel

   I am currently finishing up on an assigment that I took with a friend of mine. Both of us are ICU nurses. We didn't have a problem getting a job because of being a "team", we had trouble because she had traveled before and this was my first run. We a...

2. How fair is your transfer policy?

   JBizzleRN replied to Jean1313's topic in General Nursing

   Fair? Lets talk fair. I put in a transfer to the ICU from my med/surg floor. Well to start with my manager offered me a day PCC position, I refused and told her I just wanted to transfer. Two days later I call HR to see if they ever got my transfer p...

3. Respiratory therapist Vs Nurses

   JBizzleRN replied to omgodzilla's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses get paid more. Nurses have more responsibilities Nursing is more demanding Nurses can do respiratory therapy's job Nursing is always in high demand. Don't get me wrong I love and appreciate every one of my respiratory therapist. However they...

4. Stop IV for what?

   JBizzleRN replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

   In our hospital we cannont disconnect an iv w/o a drs order. . even to go down for tests.

5. Changing PICC Dressings

   JBizzleRN replied to imanedrn's topic in Med-Surg

   Really? Every 7 days? Our hospital is still on the every 96 (every 4 days) protocool.

6. Patient Abandoment?

   JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Med-Surg

   In southern Mississippi at a public hospital. Yeah it does suck more than I can even say..

7. new grad and I already hate working

   JBizzleRN replied to 2bnurse_it's topic in Med-Surg

   Nobody is ready to come out orientation. It's a scary place, but remember you have people there you can ask for help and ask questions. When in doubt call the doctor :) that's what he gets paid for! Just stick it out. :nuke:

8. What is Your Daily Routine?

   JBizzleRN replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Med-Surg

   My usual routine: 1) Make walking rounds and see if they need anything then. Also if I got a good report from the previous nurse I go ahead and do my shift assessments. If I got a crappy report I'll go check the chart and then come back to do my asse...

9. Clothing issues/malfunctions.

   JBizzleRN replied to THAT Nurse.'s topic in Humor

   HAHA...and get a free wax job if you aren't careful

10. travelling w/ 2-3 yrs under your belt??

    JBizzleRN replied to HD-RN's topic in Travel

    Oh it's not like that in every hospital I wouldn't think, just ours :) They don't use travel nurses because that's what they have the "float pool" for. But when you only have 6 nurses in the float pool trying to cover the hospital's staffing shortage...

11. travelling w/ 2-3 yrs under your belt??

    JBizzleRN replied to HD-RN's topic in Travel

    Yes, Mississippi...LPNs? I WISH....CNA'S we are lucky to have one for all 33 patients on the floor.

12. travelling w/ 2-3 yrs under your belt??

    JBizzleRN replied to HD-RN's topic in Travel

    IV teams! Oh my that would be a dream.. With our 8-9 pts we start or own IVs and we have to draw our morning labs..so needless to say we get plenty of that experience.

13. low diastolic BP after giving PRBC

    JBizzleRN replied to LLawsor520's topic in Med-Surg

    Did you take it manually or was it with a machine? Either way if it was truly 40 that is considered a critical blood pressure...So you could have called the MD or put the dynamap on the patient set it to every 5 minutes and see if the blood pressure ...

14. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    JBizzleRN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

    Does it every aggravate you that someone on your unit answers the call light, and one of your patients wants to "see the nurse." You get there and they want pain medicine, or nausea medicine or a pillow or a blanket...so you have to make more trips a...

15. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Med-Surg

    If I can just tough it out for a few more months I'll be fine. I look at it this way, if I can survive here I can probably survive at any hospital haha. And then I just think about moving off the Med/Surg floor to a telemetry floor or the ICU. All of...